NAQ

The Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ; © Einarsen, Raknes, Matthiesen & Hellesøy, 1994; Hoel, 1999) is a research inventory developed for measuring perceived exposure to bullying and victimisation at work. Bullying research has lacked a standardised measurement tool (cf. Hoel, Rayner, & Cooper, 1999). Thus, incomparable measures and operationalisations have been used in research on workplace bullying. As a consequence we do not know if the same phenomenon has been measured across different studies. As no standard measure of workplace bullying exist in this field, we propose that the NAQ should be used in future studies allowing better comparisons of survey results from different national cultures and organisational settings. The NAQ is free to use for non-commercial research projects.

Workplace bullying

As the name of the group suggest, Workplace bullying is one of the main research area of this group.

Destructive leadership

Whistleblowing

Whistleblowing is commonly defined as: when a former or current employee discloses misconduct that is under their employers control to someone that may be able to do something about it (Near & Miceli, 1985, p. 4). The onset of whistleblowing research is usually set to the US in 1971 when Ralph Nader hosted the first conference on whistleblowing called “Professional Responsibility”, and thereafter published a report from this gathering filled with cases of employees that had spoken up about wrongdoing at work (Nader, Blackwell, & Petkas, 1972). Since then, whistleblowing cases have arisen to scholarly attention across a wide range of nations (see e.g., Miceli, Near, & Dworkin, 2009 for an overview).

About the group

The Bergen Bullying Research Group (BBRG) is a research team at the University of Bergen in Norway devoted to research on workplace bullying and harassement, destructive leadership, emotions in organisations, and whistleblowing.

PhD SV: VITSV900 2012

New paper from the group

Members of the Bergen Bullying Research group contribute with an empirical research paper in the latest issue of the Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association. The paper, entitled "A study of basic life assumptions and post-traumatic stress disorder among victims of workplace bullying" is written in Norwegian. An abstract in English is presented here.